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Vinted has recently finished its funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, previous backers Sprints Capital, Inside Venture Partners, Accel and Burda Principal Investments. The startup raised a total of $141 million and reached a total valuation of $1 billion. Since the startup is from Lithuania, it is now the second unicorn startup coming out from the Baltics. Previously, an Estonian startup Taxify, which now has rebranded to Bolt had reached a valuation of $1 billion.The company...

Although the stock market has been hitting new highs, analysts have warned investors to stay cautious during these times. Otavio Costa, an analyst at Crescat Capital said that it is the ideal time for investors to buy and accumulate gold.In an in-depth analysis, Costa explained that the Treasury Yield Curve spreads have moved past the critical 70% threshold. Citing historical patterns, Costa advises investors to liquidate their stocks and instead buy gold for the next two years.History...

MiddleGame Ventures (MGV) that is a fintech-focused investment company announced on Monday that it had managed to raise assets for the new fund aimed at providing support to startups in Europe and North America.As per the announcement, MGV’s Venture Fund I reached its first close with the last target size attaining $165 million.The fund is going to enter into partnerships with both B2B and B2B2C startups and, of course, it will invest in them. The main goal is to get the transformation of...

Fintech startup Ualá which is a finance app that helps people with all things financial has just finished its Series C funding to the tune of $150 million. This round was led by Tencent and Softbank’s Innovation Fund which has as its specific aim the Mercursour region. The app functions very much like Monzo, Nubank and Revolut but this time the focus of this app is on the Argentine market without the trappings and requirements of financial institutions and regulations. With its CEO Pierpaolo...

Financial services company MoneyGram International Inc. announced on Monday that a provider of leading enterprise blockchain solutions for global payments Ripple Labs, completed its final $20 million investment in MoneyGram equity consistent to its primarily $50 million equity investment commitment that the company made earlier this year.The price of share Ripple paid was $4.10 that seems to be pretty much higher than MoneyGram’s current price on the market. As per the announcement, the...

India’s digital payments company Paytm said it got new funding from its shareholders but also some new investors. SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund, Ant Financial and Discovery Capital will, therefore, together with new investors advised by T. Rowe Price Group Inc. fund Paytm to get it in front of its competitors as the country’s finance sector is slightly beginning to grill.From Ant Financial they said they have been searching for investment opportunities in Southeast Asia in order to...

Coinspeaker World Chess to Issue Digital Tokens in ‘Hybrid IPO’ World Chess is going to issue tokens that will use blockchain ledgers to simplify the fundraising process and will be convertible to shares at a later point. World Chess to Issue Digital Tokens in ‘Hybrid IPO’ Continue reading at Coinspeaker

As previously reported by CoinSpeaker, China’s Bitcoin mining giant Canaan Creative conducted its IPO with its shares going public on the Nasdaq platform on Wednesday, November 20.Well, things have certainly not gone the way Canaan thought and it looks like the decision to go public was all done in haste. In its filing to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Canaan marketed its shares for $9 to $11, as per the Bloomberg report.Previously, Canaan planned to raise around...

Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen said he thought digital assets such as XRP would play a major role in the movement of money around the world. Recently, Larsen discussed the role of digital assets in the economy and the regulatory environment that must exist to advance blockchain and crypto.Ripple is the blockchain that has the highest number of transactions recorded on its blockchain in recent days. Having 1,151,101 more transfers which were almost 54% higher than the transactions executed on...

Within the cryptocurrency industry, there are a number of prominent tokens which dominate the industry and get the most attention, and just like any other market, there is a constant struggle for dominance between various firms. Some of the most popular in this regard are Bitcoin and Ethereum. Within Bitcoin, there are certain offshoots that sprung up as a result of hard forks such as Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV, which is backed by controversial figure Craig Wright and while many of the...